1. Video Monday Original Bike Tricks from Tim Knoll

2. Today’s Class (11/2/16) Outcome: Agenda:
Be able to identify key events before and during the Civil War
Be able to explain the Reconstruction plans and which plan was most closely followed by the U.S.
Agenda:
Review of Civil War Timeline
Reconstruction Brainstorm activity
Notes: Politics of Reconstruction

3. Reconstruction Plans People who want to be easy on the South
People who want to be hard on the South
Questions:
Who is in charge?
What happens to African Americans and former slaves?
What about the soldiers and political leaders?
How do we punish them?
How do states rejoin the Union?
What type of rights to they have?
Do we make them pay money?
Create a 1 page poster sharing your ideas (use colors!)

4. Today’s Class 11/3/16 Objective:
Be able to explain and evaluate the Reconstruction plans and which plan was most closely followed by the U.S.
Agenda:
Politics of Reconstruction Notes
Evaluate Reconstruction plans with chart

5. Politics of Reconstruction

6. What is Reconstruction?
The period of Reconstruction lasted from 1865 to 1877.
Reconstruction is the process of rebuilding the U.S. after the Civil War and readmitting the Confederate states to the Union.
Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, and members of Congress all had different ideas about how this process should be handled.

7. Plans for Reconstruction
Lincoln’s Plan: “Ten Percent Plan”
More lenient & forgiving
Gov’t would pardon all Confederates who swore loyalty oath to Union.
When 10% of state population that voted in election took oath, state could be readmitted to the Union and form its new government

8. Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
March 4, 1865
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”
Is this statement consistent with Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction?

9. Radical Republicans’ Opposition
The Radical Republicans opposed Lincoln’s plan because they felt it didn’t protect newly freed slaves.
Radicals passed the Wade-Davis Bill in July This act required:
50% of state’s pop. to take loyalty oath
State must formally abolish slavery
Confederate officials not participate in new gov’t.
BUT, Lincoln used a pocket veto (didn’t sign the bill into law) and it never took effect.

10. Andrew Johnson’s Plan
Similar to Lincoln’s, pardoned those who took loyalty oath except high-ranking Confederate officials and wealthy planters.
Johnson granted pardons to many former Confederates – angered Radical Republicans
“White men alone must manage the South”
The equal rights of African Americans should be left up to individual states to decide for themselves.
Many Confederate states quickly agreed to Johnson’s terms
Radical Republicans strongly disagreed with Johnson’s plan and refused to admit new Southern legislators.

11. Politics of Reconstruction
Congressional (Radical Republicans) Plan:
Much more punitive toward South
South would be controlled by Union military until new laws and rights for freed slaves were enforced
Excluded former Confederate officials and army officers from voting or holding political office.
Guaranteed African Americans full rights as citizens & right to vote.
Thaddeus Stevens, leader of Radical Republicans

12. Reconstruction Plans
Based on what you know, which plan seems most effective?
If you were living in 1865, which plan would you want to see followed? Why?
Which plan do you think the country would follow? Why?

13. Reconstruction Act of 1867
Passed by Congress, divided former Confederate states into 5 military districts.
Union military used to enforce laws and protect rights of newly freed slaves.
Required states to ratify the 14th amendment to be readmitted to the Union.
Johnson vetoed legislation, but was OVERRIDDEN by a super majority in Congress.

14. Reconstruction Act of 1867 Military Districts

15. Andrew Johnson Impeached, Feb 1868
Radical Republicans thought Johnson was trying to block Reconstruction, looked for grounds to impeach him.
*Impeach = to charge with a crime (treason, high crimes, or [acts against the state]
When Johnson removed a cabinet member for supporting the Congressional Reconstruction plan, Republicans saw impeachment opportunity.
Congress charged Johnson with violating the Tenure of Office Act which prohibited Presidents from removing officials that had been confirmed by the Senate without the Senate’s approval.
Congress formally impeached Johnson, but fell ONE vote short of requirement for conviction.
Admission ticket to Johnson’s Impeachment Trial

16. Examining Reconstruction Plans
Compare each of the three plans using the Reconstruction Plans Organizer.
Check your responses – do they match up?

17. Issue
Lincoln’s Plan
Requirements for Confederate States’ readmission into the Union
Treatment of Former Slaves
Treatment of Former Confederates

18. Issue
Johnson’s Plan
Requirements for Confederate States’ readmission into the Union
Treatment of Former Slaves
Treatment of Former Confederates

19. Issue Congressional (Radical Republicans’) Plan
Requirements for Confederate States’ readmission into the Union
Treatment of Former Slaves
Treatment of Former Confederates

20. “A President is On Trial” Primary Source
What is the historical significance of this trial?
What role does Senator Ross of Kansas play in the trial?
How many votes were required to convict Johnson?
Describe the emotions in the passage when the Senators are rendering their verdicts.
What was the final tally of votes?